This approach is called dollar-cost averaging, and it's one of the most effective ways to hedge against market volatility. Sometimes you'll buy at the market's highest prices. Other times, you'll score pricey stocks at steep discounts. Over decades, those highs and lows should average each other out -- without needing to time the market.

Sometimes, it only takes a couple of hundred dollars per month to earn $1 million in the stock market.

Futures for Canada's main stock index edged higher on Wednesday, as investors await a potentially quick end to the U.S. government shutdown.

Softbank sold its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion to focus on artificial intelligence, the company reported Tuesday.